Moana Remake BOMBS As Dwayne Johnson Talks 'Representation'
Amala Ekpunobi
Amala Ekpunobi
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🗓️ 13 July 2026
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Disney’s live-action Moana remake starring Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson is bombing at the box office and is set to lose over $100 million. Why do they keep doing this? Let’s talk about it.
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| 0:00.0 | Disney releases yet another flop with its Moana Live Action 2026 film. |
| 0:05.0 | Did we see it coming? |
| 0:06.0 | Yes, we did. |
| 0:07.0 | Let's talk about it. |
| 0:08.0 | Yeah, you better. |
| 0:14.0 | Yeah, you better. |
| 0:16.0 | Guys, before we get into today's video, please consider liking and subscribing. |
| 0:19.0 | Today we're talking about the live action Moana, which just released. And we're going to start with |
| 0:24.0 | this headline out of deadline. It says that Moana capsizes with a $95 million worldwide opening. |
| 0:31.0 | Duane Johnson pick poised to lose $100 million to $125 million. And here's why. Today we're going to talk about the why. I also |
| 0:39.6 | want to hear your why's in the comments down below. I think we saw this coming because Disney has |
| 0:44.5 | been in its flop era recently releasing movie after movie that is just not performing. And as far |
| 0:52.2 | as their live action goes, I don't know what |
| 0:54.4 | they're doing or why they're doing it. I've seen the live action Little Mermaid, the live action |
| 1:00.6 | snow white, the live action Lilo and Stitch, and all of them, buns, buns, city. And why? Because we're |
| 1:08.8 | taking things that in my opinion do not need to be remade. And then |
| 1:12.4 | we're remaking them with our own modern sensibilities, whatever that means, because it's not |
| 1:17.5 | tapping into the modern audience market whatsoever. And then throwing it out to the public. |
| 1:22.7 | We saw that with The Little Mermaid, which had its own race swap controversy with Snow White. |
| 1:30.0 | You don't even need to get me started. |
| 1:31.4 | We have video after video about what went wrong with that film. |
| 1:34.1 | And then there was Lilo and Stitch, which I think too soon took an animated film that did not |
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